About Reining

To rein a horse is not only to guide him, but to control his every movement.  In reining, a rider is required to negotiate one of  the selected patterns, (depending on breed association) which include prescribed maneuvers of stops, spins, rollbacks, lead changes and circles at a lope.  The horse should be willfully guided with little or no resistance.  The horse is judged on movements, mastery of pattern and attitude, and is scored 0-infinity, with 70 denoting average.